My wife doesn’t usually get visual auras but she becomes extremely tired and disoriented shortly before the pain starts. Is this caused by the same mechanism?

[–] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

For fatigue, I'm not sure. Multiple things are happening that give rise to migraines. But fatigue is commonly reported by people before a migraine starts.

https://americanmigrainefoundation.org/resource-library/timeline-migraine-attack/

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I've never had a migraine headache, but my wife gets them like three or four times a year, usually pieces by a visual aura (and sometimes if she just goes into a dark, quiet room, she only gets the aura). She always described it as an "electric caterpillar" crawling from the side. I was glad she had told me about it in detail because several years ago I got one, and that's the only reason I knew what was happening. Mine wasn't as colorful as what she described, but otherwise the same.

Here's a short video simulating one, and it's very similar to my experience (and, apparently, hers).